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 little bit but first how is it

looking out there. >> it is looking nice, feeling nice, humidity on the low side, jim, all right. so we're good. yesterday was a beautiful day, we had all that sunshine, felt comfortable, warm temperatures, getting off to a great start in philadelphia getting a live look at center city not a cloud in the sky, sunnies up clear sky conditions and temperatures feeling cool 67 degrees right now is your current. that feels nice and refreshing after 16 days spent in the 90's last month and temperatures cool all across the region. right now 53 degrees in mount pocono. might even need long sleeves this morning. 61 degrees in the lehigh valley and waking up to 61 in millville and we're in the 50's in doylestown and 57 degrees this morning in quakertown certainly cool start for an august morning and for today another beautiful day in store mostly sunny and comfortable. we will see increasing humidity in the second half of the day tomorrow and i think

by tomorrow evening you will feel that sticky factor return and then on saturday oppressive humidity levels, chance of scattered storms, a few on the stronger side but once those storms moving out, lower humidity will move quickly back in once again for our sunday. we will talk about that nice sunday forecast coming up. >> it will make people happy, thanks very much. good morning everyone. happy thursday. looking outside right now we are looking at the boulevard, headlights moving in the southbound direction approaching the schuylkill looking good, really good. holding steady here. looking good on the boulevard. also, plea route northbound approaching route one take a look at this you guys looking awesome for those just heading outside and schuylkill taillights moving in the eastbound direction past king of prussia area. looking good there as well. as we can hold steady even a fraction on of what we're seeing right now we will be doing good. we have a car fire, pennsylvania turnpike eastbound near willow grove just make note of that. it is being towed out of the way. should not be too much problem. we have construction, here on the closed between shores lane

and ridge avenue until 7:00 a.m. your alternate is ridge avenue and this might slow you down a little bit on kelly drive as well. just a heads up on that. we have down wires here blocking some lanes tasker street between 32nd and 33rd street make net of that. jim, over to you. well, atlantic city's trump taj mahal casino is folding its hand last next month. it's set to close the at the end of the summer. jan carabao is live with reaction from the employees, good morning, jan. >> reporter: brooke and jim, good morning. no one is happen bye this. today officially marks longest strike for unite here local 54 in atlantic city is history. you can see behind me live a number of those members out the here on the picket lines but it seems after labor day weekend this fight will come to an end. that is when management company for trump taj mahal says casino will close taking with it 3,000 jobs. owner says he has lost hundred million-dollar on the taj over

the last 18 months, pair that with the strike and he sees no other option. striking hospitality workers are still on the picket line thursday morning even after learning that the management company of trump taj mahal plans to close casino labor day weekend. workers with unite here local 54 walk off the job in atlantic city july 1st demanding restoring of the health insurance and pension benefits which were taken away in bankruptcy court nearly two years ago. >> this is ridiculous. we are a community. >> reporter: cristina started working on opening day back in 19 on, donald trump was owner then but has not been involved for seven years. the current owner carl icahn offered to restore health benefits to the striking workers but at a level less than what workers at the cities other seven casino received. the 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.

>> reporter: when the taj close is it will be fifth casino to shut its doors in two years but roger gross, a publisher have global gaming business magazine and casino expert say atlantic city will bounce back. >> i think we have had some really good results from the four casino closings. remaining casinos stabilized their revenue. they are not losing money hanover fist any more. >> reporter: president of the tropicana which runs the taj had this to say in the statement. icon enterprises saved the tropicana and to date has lost almost 100 million-dollar trying to save the taj, with no other party, including the prior equity own hours put it into its recent bankruptcy, was willing to invest even one dollar to save it. currently taj is losing multi millions a month and with this strike we see no path to profitability. now that casino expert goes on to say it is possible once trump taj mahal close this is year it could reopen next year with new employees, no comment there icon on that possibility, this morning.

the in the meantime it is unclear exactly what date this casino will close. company plans on sending out more notices to employees by this weekend. reporting live from atlantic city it, jan carabao cbs-3 "eyewitness news". a former philadelphia catholic church official is heading back to court today. monsignor william lynn was quick of conspiring to protect pedophile priest in the archdiocese. his convictions, has new been overturn, twice. he was released on bail from prison this week. judge at today's hearing is expect to set a new trial date. jerry sandusky's lawyers are laying ground work for him to take the stand in court for the first time. you'll remember sandusky did not testify in his trial. a judge ruled his lawyers can file paperwork to let him take the stan. he is currently serving 30 to 60 year sentence for sexually abusing ten boys. a judge agreed to hold hearings to see if he deserves a new trial. he is expected back in court

next friday, august 12th. now to the campaign trail, donald trump is trying get his campaign back on track amid signs of the turmoil within the g.o.p. yesterday's trump's own running mate split with him over his refusal tone doors house speaker paul ryan. meanwhile democrat hillary clinton has expanded her lead in national polls to double digits. hena daniels has the latest on the campaign trail. >> 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 ward from them as the founder of ice is. >> reporter: tying her to accusations that the 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 something all started by crooked hillary clinton. >> the attacks came amid signs

of a deepening rift between g.o.p. nominee and members of his own party. yesterday illinois representative adam kensinger became latest republican refusing to support trump in november. his own running mate mike pence also split with him and endorsed house speaker paul ryan. "fox news" poll out shows trump now trailing clinton by ten percentage points nationally. >> hena daniels for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". there are other parties in the running for president, including libertarian party. that party's candidates say a vote for libertarians is a vote for personal liberty. libertarian presidential candidate is former new mexico governor gary johnson and vp candidate is william weld a former governor of massachusetts. at a town hall meeting in cnn, they say they are a party disaffected by bickering between republicans and democrats. >> i dent 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 was than the to waste your vote on trump or clinton be our guest. >> libertarians are reportedly polling about 12 percent. they need to support from at least 15 percent of registered voters to be included in the presidential debates. well in, other news vice-president gentlemen biden received an honor right here in philadelphia, for his effort to fight cancer. the world affairs council presented its at last award to the vice-president at the hi y att at the bellevue last night. it is for his leadership on cancer moon shot 2020 an effort to quickly develop new treatments for the disease. after the ceremony the vice-president, spoke exclusively with our own ukee washington and they talk about the cancer moon shot, plus the race for the presidency and g.o.p. nominee donald trump. >> i spoken to a lot of friends, republican senators and they are perplexed at what seems to be the constant self

infliction of wounds. they don't understand why would he take on gulf star mother and father, why would he not be endorsing the republican leader of the house paul ryan. donald trump, some of the things he says indicate that he is cluelesson some of the foreign policy issues. >> the vice-president also talked about hillary clinton, hear that plus what he says he will do when he is out of office during ukee's exclusive interview on "eyewitness news" at 11:00. still ahead the latest on the stabbing attack this london and an unlikely suspect in a federal terror case. plus more trouble from maryland town dealing with the aftermath of flash flooding. there is trouble for popular dog breed we will tell you why english bull talk may be facing stinks. >> ♪

this song makes me so happy can't stop the feeling, we love this beautiful weather but as they say all good things must come to an end. lauren casey is back to tell us when heat and humidity make a come back, stay with us.

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wednesday night, in london's russell square. the attacker killed one person, injured five others. london police took a 19 year-old man in custody. they say suspect has a history of mental illness, police say they have not rule outer wrist many just yet. a washington transit officer is facing federal terrorism charges for allegedly trying to provide materials 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. young is the first american law enforcement officer ever accused of aiding the terror group. maryland town overwhelmed by week end flash flood has a new problem: a massive sewage leak. in ellicott city up to 5 million gallons of sewage a day are heading to the chesapeake bay. flooding devastated the downtown area crews are struggling to fix the sewage leak because it is hard to get to the area.

we're drying out. i don't think we have had any rain in the past day or so that i can remember. >> are they dry down there, lauren. >> we do have high pressure in control so we will stay dry, today and we are awaking to dry conditions checking in live on neighborhood network cape may county courthouse beautiful conditions, little pink in the scene there temperature 62 degrees feeling cool thanks to the northerly component, and wind speed are light only 2 miles an hour and temperatures we have some cool spots this morning, lower 60's in the lehigh valley, lower 50's in the poconos waking up to 65 in reading, 67 in philadelphia and 65 degrees in dover. storm scan three showing us in rain drops, no included cover and that is how we will keep it through much of the day to take with high pressure in control but we have a storm system up win bringing strong, severe thunderstorms to parts of the upper midwest, that will drop in for us as we head into saturday and bring us a storm chance and a few storms

on the stronger side but for today and into tomorrow, very nice conditions as well as high pressure remains in control, mostly sunny temperatures in the 80's, near 90, more humid as we head into saturday with the chance of scatter storms in the second half of the day but we could see a few showers and thunder in the morning as well. that cold front will clear and then quickly on the back side temperatures drop back down humidity clears out and sunshine returns to save our weekend a beautiful end to the weekend 86 degrees on sunday, much more comfortable once again and we have another nice stretch of weather in store for august. 87 degrees on tuesday and still staying clear just barely in the 90's on wednesday. >> sure looking gorgeous, thank you you so much. good morning, happy thursday. boulevard headlights moving in the southbound direction a approaching the schuylkill, look at that, what a great drive for a thursday morning, i can let you know that the only place we are really starting to heat upright now is schuylkill westbound at

city avenue. boulevard, and schuylkill that is what you are doing, you are crawling a little will bit and in the 7:00 o'clock hour. ninety-five south at girard you can see, looking good here, you are still traveling at posted speed and dropping in the next 40 minutes or so but take a look at that sunshine, man you will pack your sunglasses driving in the eastbound side, southbound side looking okay, that is more in your rear-view mirror. that sun glare will be powerful. pack those sunglasses but enjoy it because that is a mood lifter, if i have ever seen one. car fire here, pennsylvania turnpike eastbound near willow grove that that right lane is block because of the car fire, excuse me and also, you guys, norristown high speed inbound 20 minute delays because of equipment problems. so check those schedules on line, brooke, over to you. >> thanks, meisha. now for newspaper headlines from across our region.

>> on the cover of the springfield press township officials in the community come together to create a new organization, springfield cares, to fight the opioid up democratic. the group includes judicial elect officials, law enforcement medical experts and school officials with residents within the community, affected by a dixon. after 40 years, east marlboro township manager jane laslow is retiring. when she started the population of the township was only 2500 with just two subdivisions, union square and the population of the township has more than doubled since then. kutztown area patriots classic cars thundered along kutztown's main street as part of the second annual kutztown crews, they were displayed as far back as the 190's. >> that is your newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. welshing still ahead a bizarre attack a zoo visitor, faces charges in the death of a flamingo.

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a florida man faces felony animal cruelty charges for his alleged attack of a popular bird. this is file of petey known as dancing flamingo at bush gardens in tampa bay. witnesses reported seeing 45 year-old joseph, grab the bird

and slam him to the ground. vets say that he suffered injuries so traumatic she could not be saved. >> that is just horrible. so sad. new study from the university of callus scrutinizing a popular breed of dog. >> researchers a say they are cute english bulldogs but they have been bread to have cute faces and no genetic diversity. there is no more natural births for pure bread english bulldogs they all deliver by c-section. experts say that the breed is in trouble. >> english bull doggies more or less considered a poster child for what can go wrong if a breed is pushed too far. >> researchers have determined the english bull dog comes from just one paternal bloodline. welshing still ahead on "eyewitness news", good news this weeks story of brotherly love town the shore. money may in the grow on trees but word of inspiration are popping up on this one in

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woman who started it all and found out who she hopes to reach. >> think of a sunrise all shiny and gold and ice cream deliciously cold. >> english professor sill vera bear enjoyed summers off from teaching but not literature. rowan college of gloucester county faculty member used a play on word to make something remarkable in front of her summer home in cape may. >> it is the poet tree and it is, a tree with lots of poems. >> reporter: for three weeks she has been tying sheets of paper to the tree in her front yard with her favorite poems, some written by others, some original. >> this one is called miles speaks and thinks actually from my grandson. >> reporter: she prints them on brightly colored paper to grab peoples attention and if you like it, take it. so far she has given out more than a hundred poems. >> we have replenish poems once or twice a day every single day.

>> reporter: one half of her favorite things are all of the people she has met, they are european vacationers or local surfers they stopped, read her poetry and tell her how much word she writes remind us how similar we all are. >> there is so much going on in the world today and really from the beginning of the time that remind us how we're so different from each other and i wanted to do something that reminded people of how alike we are. >> reporter: that is what brotherly love is all about. in cape may, cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". well, robo calls they seem to happen sitting down to dinner. >> how do you know if the offer is legitimate or a scam, we will show you wha you need to know to protect yourself coming up in the next half an hour. >> but first a former catholic church official is heading back to court, justin finch is live on the story, justin? >> reporter: jim, brooke i'm justin finch here live in center city. coming up monsignor at the center of the sex abuse cover up scandal is due back in court today we will tell you

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you just can't beat mornings like this especially down the shore. we're taking a live look at ocean city and we're enjoying a nice summer stretch of weather but heat will be creeping back in. good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm brooke thomas at 6:31 here's what you need to know in today's morning minute: >> it is now officially the longest strike during unite here local 54 in at atlantic city's history but it seems like after labor day weekend this fight will come to a close when management company for trump taj mahal says

casino will close. former philadelphia catholic church official is heading back to court. monsignor william lynn could find out today when his new trial date will be. the campaign is doing really well. it has never been so well united. >> donald trump is trying to get his campaign back on track. >> yesterday adam kensinger became latest republican refusing to support trump. in london police are trying to figure out why an attacker with the knife killed one person and hurt five more people. >> early indication suggest that mental health is a significant factor it is a single, phillies win. here in the bottom of the 12th inning. >> another entertaining day between phillies and giants. series continues at the bank, this afternoon.

>> um-hmm, and lauren is on the sky deck live up to date us on how it feels outside, hi there lauren. >> it is feeling great, i even call it a little bit of the chill with cool air in place, air is nice and dry as well as certainly doesn't feel like august on this thursday morning. really great start to the day and great sleeping weather we have had overnight last night and temperatures right now waking up to 60's and 50's on the board. 53 degrees right now, sweat shirt weather in mount pocono. sixty-one in allentown. 67 degrees in philadelphia. sixty-one in ac. that comfort index right now not too bad we have dew points hanging around 60-degree mark and that is the trend all through the day. feeling nice and comfortable and if you are heading pool side instead of the work place, well, one you are lucky and two it will be beautiful today topping off at 87 degrees and exactly our average high temperature in philadelphia meisha with sunshine but grab that sun screen, uv index at ten with sunshine in store but we have

a chance of storms and let you though when to expect those in the weekend forecast. >> thanks, lauren looks gorgeous outside. look at this camera shot delaware county, i-95 north at 452, but overall this morning we are not seeing too many slow downs because of it, so just take a look around here dealing with a lot of the sun that we're not used to. traveling at posted speed here we have been seeing this all morning long but it looks like it is heating up more so over past 30 minutes. it will slow you down more as we push toward that 7:00 o'clock more so towards that 7:00 o'clock hour but more so that commute in morning is looking darn nice. one of the areas we are seeing and slowing down is i-95 south, a hard that is hard to see it will be in your rear-view mirror. the it is not in front moving in the southbound direction but it will slow you down a little bit because we have congestion levels now to support that a little bit on interstate 95. we know what will be happening moving towards seven and schuylkill east and westbound right around the

boulevard area moving in the westbound direction very slow there i, brooke, over to you. former philadelphia catholic church official is heading back to court today. >> monsignor william lynn was quick of conspiring to protect pedophile priest but that conviction has been overturn twice. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch joins us from outside criminal justice center to explain the court hearing, justin. >> reporter: jim and brooke good morning. monsignor is due back in court for 9:45 for a status hearing during which a judge will likely set a new date for his trial. just two days after he was released from prison. our late lease at monsignor william lynn came tuesday as he left the scranton area prison. now five five-year oldies nation's first ever roman catholic church official charged and convicted of covering up child sex abuse claims. he served almost three years of his three to six year sentence. the lynn's 2012 convictions have been since overturn. on tuesday he was released on bail and now staying with

family after state supreme court granted him a new trial. lynn's defense claims that handling of the sex abuse claims and transferred abusing priest under the purview of the cardinal anthony bevilacqua, but family of sean mcilmail believes lynn deserves punishment for aiding their sons alleged abuse at the hand of father robert brennan. philadelphia district attorney seth williams plans to vigorously pursue the case. >> he knew what he was doing. i don't want to hear bevilacqua, krol all the way up the rine. >> jury of monsignor lynn's peers in philadelphia found him guilty of endangering welfare of children and the evident was sufficient to show 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 and i think we all necessity where he stood meaning where lynn stood in

this hierarchy weeks a all understand that lynn never touched a kid. >> reporter: back live his trial is set for 2017 calendar date, there is no comment from the philadelphia archdiocese but his attorney says that archbishop charles chaput has been in contact with lynn and in word if he will pursue his pastoral duties in the meantime. we are live, from center city, justin finch for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". jim and brooke back inside to you. >> thanks, justin. relief for riders of septa's regional rail. transit services say train cars pulled for repair will be soon back on the track. more than 120 silver line are cars have been out of service since the july 4th weekend, fatigue cracks were found on the train's under carriage. septa says 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. happening today lawyers will hold a public meeting in horsham over contaminated

water. attorneys have been exploring lawsuits after well water in and around horsham was found to be contaminated. the contamination has been blamed on fire fighting foam used at nearby military bases. two law firms are holding a meeting at 7:00 p.m. at manor house at commonwealth in horsham. well, last year 11 percent of u.s. consumers lost approximately $7.4 billion to phone scams, averaging $274 per victim according to a survey conducted by harris poll. >> is there a new crop of phone scams, this year. for more on what you need to know to protect yourself we are joined by cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger. >> jill's live in new york, good morning, jill. >> reporter: good morning. >> how do folks differentiate between legitimate and fraudulent robo call. >> reporter: well, if you are like me they should all be illegitimate, they are horrible, right. if you receive an automated call, trying to sell you something and you have not

given the caller written permission it is illegal. hang up, file a complaint with the fcc and the national do not call registry. now, in addition to the calls being illegal, the pitch is mess likely, are you ready for this, a scam, the criminals are phishing for personal information that can later be used to steel your identity. >> jill, lets talk about the top scams so far this year. >> reporter: according to research number one is a weird one called the search engine listing scam, so a caller to maybe a small business owner says hey your business listing on google or bing is not up to date and they are looking for your personal information to get it up to date. next are pretty old ones, loan related ones, recordings offering to help lower your interest rate or threat their loan is past due and then there is free vacation calls, come on guys you know there is no free vacation. fraud is using high pressure

sales tactic to spur victims to give them their credit card information to pay for a small nominal additional fee. finally election season, okay. beware of political robo calls. most of these are legitimate but fraudulent ones claim to be with survey companies, they are seeking donations or they are trying to phish for your personal information, by claiming that you need to reregister or vote. they are so nice. they offer to take your vote over the phone. okay, you will in the do that. learn how to protect you and your relatives from a different kind of fraud, senior fraud, get to jill on money.com, beware, hang up, be rude, it is okay. >> seniors are often targeted in these things so you have to make sure your parents, grab parents are well aware. >> you were just telling us about a story a few weeks back. >> thanks, jill. computer researchers say there could be a serious security flaw with chip based credit card. >> concern is over the magnetic strip intended to tell a payment machine to use the chip but researchers say

card thieves can simply rewrite the strip's code to make ate peer like a chipless card and keep counterfeiting credit cards. customers have complained that the card take too long to process and retailers are spending billions to upgrade their card reading technology. still ahead princess of poppies back with a new album. and how one crowner is celebrating a milestone birthday but first commercial flight to the moon gets the green light. first we will start with pat, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, as you know sometimes you just need a pal, we will spotlight police athletic league and my involvement coming up

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keep whatever they find. google promises 20 million-dollar to the first commercial company to make it to the moon. well, lauren casey joins us now how is it going over there. >> it is going good, weather watchers are giving us their current conditions and we appreciate that, getting you started off on a cool note as many weather watchers are reporting 50's and 60's on the game. 59 degrees. we will check with our cbs-3 weather watcher adam who says bright sunshine. 59 degrees in chesterfield, new jersey. he has a picture. check that out, abundance of pictures. it looks like this one sunrise has yellow, beautiful start to our thursday, clear skies, and not a cloud in sight. that is how we will keep it through the day today and even into tomorrow, as well. we have 56 degrees as reported by our cbs-3 weather watcher eileen reporting bright sunshine. also gilbertsville, pennsylvania she's saying my kind of morning, cool, and

refreshing. we all do like that especially after an extremely hot july, 16 days we have spent in the 90's in philadelphia, so 67 degrees, feeling great this morning. wind north east around 5 miles an hour, beautiful start to the day in center city philadelphia, as we head throughout the day today mostly sunny conditions, high temperatures right around average at 87 degrees, comfortable humidity levels, nice light wind and as we head into tonight a few passing clouds turning a bit muggy especially late tonight down to 68 degrees and then start to feel that humidity creep up a bit as we head into friday evening but today down the shore and delaware beaches mostly sunny at 28 degrees. beautiful conditions. water temperatures feeling 76 degrees and great day in store for our friday with that sea breeze. 83 degrees. mostly sunny. bit more humid but that uv index will be up around nine for our friday so be sure to have that sun screen in hand. and then on saturday

conditions change up, cold front moves through delaware valley so we are in the marginal risk of severe wet's cross the area with storms that will be rowing in and in association with the cold front. only glitch in the forecast, meisha looks like on saturday with that chance of storms especially for second half of the day and then we're beautiful looking good, by sunday 86 degrees and sunshine. >> of all of the taste we don't want rain it comes on saturday, right, but you are our sunshine today. >> ahh. >> you are bringing in sunshine, true. >> take a look blue route taillights in the southbound direction approaching the schuylkill, looking busy here, first time i have looked at blue route and said give yourself couple extra minutes. we have had a quarter to 7:00 and you can see we are traveling less than posted speed, and schuylkill and, in the distance you can see brake lights. plus we have sunshine. that is what we are complaining it is absolutely gorgeous but we will pack those sunglasses. norristown high speed line,

septa in bound 20 minute delays because of equipment problems, check those schedules on line and this is make ago lot of people very happy, septa regional rails are back in service starting week of august 21st, read this between, ten cars per week a lot of the services will be completely done by november 6th and a lot of the week day services will be early october back to running normal. we are covering this. i will tweet it as well but make note because that will make people happy. pop star brittany spears is dropping some new music. >> it has been three years since her last album and i have been waiting ever since. pop princess promises her ninth studio album is beginning of the the new era, glory will be available august . her latest single make me debuted at number 17 on the billboard hot 100. check out this big honor in the big apple torrent taner tony bennet on his 90th birthday. lots of people celebrated him at a empire state building

yesterday. lady gaga was there. she's his occasional singing partner. >> i know that. >> that night empire state building sparkled with lights in the color of two flags italian and american and honored the bend it's italian/american heritage. >> ♪ happy birthday to you >> and happy birthday mr. president, president obama turns 55 years old today as he was serenaded participating in a summit for young african leaders. this will be his last birthday in the white house no details on how he plans to celebrate. time is six credit 49. there is a lot coming up this morning. >> charlie rose joins us live from new york with the preview, good morning, charlie. >> good morning brooke and jim donald trump's campaign chairman paul mana thefort joins us in studio 57 and allegations of sexual misconduct scandal at u.s.a. gymnastic. the network investigation into a policy that protected

coaches inappropriate behavior. and this, how does an airline crew get everyone off a burning plane in less than two minutes? we will take a look first up this morning president owe bam's new declaration about femininism, all that and more, news is back in the morning and we will see new ten minutes. >> thanks, charlie we will be watching. >> we sure will. this has been going on for 07 years, i'm talking about local kids getting a special helping hand from those who serve our community. >> "eyewitness news" reporter pat gallen is here to talk about the police athletic league and how it strives for better relationships in the community. >> isn't that important, guys. jim and brooke, in many areas getting caught up in the spiral of street life can take a way a child's hopes and dreams but the police athletic league continues to give kid of all ages and alternative, which is something that i used to my advantage in my youth. >> since 1947 the philadelphia a police athletic league has been helping area kids escape dangers of the street, while

giving them positive fun learning and playing environment have the officer bruno, knows the importance of those relationships. >> the bond between child and officer is something that can really change his college life, the fact that sometimes you may feel like we're raising some of these kids. >> good. >> reporter: here at plate ground in northeast philadelphia kids are taking part in the six week tennis camp, many other sports are part of the ram. >> do you like that? >> come on. >> do you kind of like that. what is your favorite sport. >> soccer. >> what is your favorite. >> baseball. >> reporter: tony recently retired after 34 years on the force, and has been with pal for 25. so he too understands why pal continues to be successful today. >> it helps them be safe, keeps them off the street the but brings neighborhood together. my pal was at lawncrest or

lawn dale pal but brought kid from the lawncrest community, burholme, fox chase, brought them all together. >> reporter: tie was a pal kid in my youth. tony and i go way back. >> anything comes to mind of kid that grew through pal that you were at. >> well, you were one of them. >> yes, true. >> many success stories stemming from pal and having played multiple sports there i necessity first hand the good it can bring to the people of philadelphia. >> good job. >> the officers told me that they need to utilize the police athletic league as a way to strengthen relationship were not just kids but parents throughout the city as well in light of all that has happened recently. they are hoping to add a few more pal centers in the near future so that all kids in the city has a place to go. last night the police athletic league held their annual celebrity softball game which, of course, i had to take part in along with fellow "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan and other local media permits at citizens bank

park the game began with the ceremonial first pitch being thrown out by police commissioner ross and a lucky pal kid as well. carlos ruiz from the phillies also recognized for his service in the community. a lot of fun. i'm not the athlete that i once was. my knees are painful this morning but it was a lot of fun and for a great cause to promote police athletic league. >> pal is a great organization. >> it is. >> it keeps the kid active, involved and engage. >> i was six or seven when i took part in the pal league and it help. >> look at how you turnout. >> really awesome. >> thanks, pat. >> we will be right back with three things you need to know before you go. >> three to go,

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before you leave here's three to go. >> monsignor william lynn will be in court for a hearing today, a judge us expect to set a new trial date in the case. he was released on bail this week. >> trump taj mahal casino in atlantic city will shut down after labor day. employees are set to get playoff notices by even of the week. two law firms are talking tonight about contaminated water in horsham. it is at 7:00 at manor house at commonwealth. >> that is three to go. all right. if you have been meaning to go

see donkeys around town, better do it quickly. >> that is because donkeys will be soon leaving. the philadelphia 2016 help commit thee for dnc says that the donkeys will be taken off streets several weeks early, because they say donkeys are high maintenance and volunteers took care of them are gone now, so dnc is over. >> fifty-two of the 57 delegations have signed up to take their donkeys home. donkeys will be taken off of the street on august 23rd. >> donkeys. >> not all donkeys will go to their home state though, new york, connecticut, qualm, puerto rico and american samoa have not claim their by yesterday afternoon. >> yes. >> i said where do they go. >> i will take one. >> sunshine to see donkeys

around town, 87 degrees and tomorrow is nice as well becoming more humid late day watching out for strong storms saturday afternoon but by sunday beautiful once again. >> we are slow on the roadways because of all those donkeys when we are out there boulevard headlights moving in the southbound direction approaching the schuylkill. we are looking at sun glare out there we will have to pack sunglasses but overall it is a beautiful commute, in new jersey, 42 freeway north bound we will start to heat up, and also as we go wide it is looking slow on the schuylkill approaching the vine. >> cbs this morning is next with donald trump's campaign manager on falling poll numbers and rift with g.o.p. leaders. >> remember to join us early each weekday morning here on cbs-3 at 4:30 a.m. have a great day.

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